LONDON (Reuters) -Three lawyers for the late opposition leader Alexei Navalny were found guilty by a Russian court on Friday of belonging to an extremist group and sentenced to years in a penal colony ...

Navalny, who died suddenly aged 47 in an Arctic penal colony in February last year, was himself convicted of extremism and other charges, all of which he said were trumped up by the authorities to ...

PETUSHKI, Russia (AP) — Three lawyers who once represented the late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny were convicted by a court Friday as part of the Kremlin’s crackdown on dissent that ...

Navalny, who died suddenly aged 47 in an Arctic penal colony in February last year ... Security correspondent from 2003 to 2008. Speaks French, Russian and (rusty) German and Polish.

The place was once known for being a penal settlement ... adding that it was one of the harshest forms of punishment in the colony. “Convicts loathed it. It was deemed the most difficult ...

Russia sentenced Oleksandr Maksymchuk, a Ukrainian prisoner of war (POW), to 20 years in a maximum-security penal colony. His wife and his son, born in 2019, are waiting for him in Ukraine. Maksymchuk ...

Simple History Australian Penal Colonies Posted: January 8, 2025 | Last updated: January 8, 2025 Colonial America had been a destination for Britain's criminals for a while, but the American War ...

Viktar Babaryka, 61, has been denied meetings with his family and lawyers while serving a 14-year sentence in a penal colony after failing to get on the ballot against authoritarian President ...

Britain extended the boundaries of the colony of New South Wales to include New Zealand. This arrangement lasted almost a year, but is often forgotten or overlooked. Partly this is because ...

Britain extended the boundaries of the colony of New South Wales to include New Zealand. This arrangement lasted almost a year, but is often forgotten or overlooked. Partly this is because ...